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Airships, AI and Alan Cumming: Tim Answers Your Questions

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

The Importance of Learning From Failure

The most interesting lessons in the show are often the ones about institutions, about systems. People are irredeemably flawed, but we hope that we can create systems and institutions to sort of put a floor under that. Some of these stories have basically three lessons, four lessons. There's a lot of different stuff going on. And sometimes there isn't really a lesson. Sometimes it's just, hey, this thing happened. Let me tell you the story.

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